The question
Which book do you still mean to read, and why has it stayed on your list?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
I’ve never read Proust.
All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
Ulysses – I’ve tried many times and never got through it.
I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.
Politics. And casting directors.
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
As Tilda Swinton in a fat suit.
“Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you, but did you know you look a bit like that actress Siobhán McSweeney?”
Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
Munroe Bergdorf, Zack Polanski, Toby Stephens, Stephanie Beacham, Matthew Kelly, Ally McCoist
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